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Sue Suprianos Steppin Out of Babylon is a radio interview series covering a broad range of important issues in todays world: peace and war, human and civil rights, communication, the media, the environment, food security, racism, globalization, immigration and matters of the spirit. Over 250 shows are available at this site!

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Hope Shand

Genetically Modified Food, Terminator Seeds and Nanotechnology

Terminator Seeds, Nanotechnology: Hope Shand has been working with the Canadian based, ETC Group (Erosion, Technology and Concentration) for over 20 years. She is the Research Director and has written on agricultural biodiversity, corporate concentration and the the social and economic impacts of emerging technologies and who controls the ownership of the emerging technologies. Shand is the author of Human Nature: Agricultural Biodiversity and Farm Based Food Security. She lives in South Carolina. This interview took place during the Reclaim the Commons-Teach In in San Francisco in June, 2004.

In this show the focus is on genetically modified food and on nanotechnology-- a very important, technology for creating from microscopic building blocks. People need to know more about it as it is already present in things we come into contact with, though it is not well understood or sufficiently tested. She especially talks about cosmetics.